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Written by ragman on 2025-02-01 at 22:39

And plan to get my website tutorial [1] out in zine format soon.

Will hopefully make it easier for ppl to craft sculptures at home!

1. https://www.ragman.net/musings/nfc_sculptures/

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Written by ragman on 2025-02-01 at 22:32

The NFC Sculpture workshop at @iffybooks went well today!

It was super cool seeing everyone's ideas and sculptures come to life.

Thanks to everybody that came, you all rock! :D

Hope to run another one again in the future. 👍🏻

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Written by ragman on 2025-01-30 at 20:40

Solution? I added a cache of the pandoc-ed content! Generation times are back to instant!

Hurray for caching! :D

[1] https://pandoc.org/

Permalink: https://www.ragman.net/notes/12

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Written by ragman on 2025-01-30 at 20:40

I use pandoc[1] heavily for my blog generator, converting the markdown files I write my content in to the HTML or Mastonified text that I actually upload.

It works great, but my generator script was running it against dozens of files everytime I changed anything, and my site was taking on the order of ~5 seconds to re-generate.

May not seem like a lot, but it used to be run pretty instantaneously, and the delay was starting to make writing new blog posts frustrating.

[#]coding

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Written by ragman on 2025-01-28 at 22:49

Scary stuff happening right now.

Trump has just posted an executive order banning hormonal and surgical based trans care for minors:

https://bsky.app/profile/erininthemorning.com/post/3lgthupw73s22

(.gov website: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-children-from-chemical-and-surgical-mutilation/)

This on top of (unconfirmed) reports that the feds are asking for lists of trans employees in order to reapply for grant money:

https://bsky.app/profile/troydee.bsky.social/post/3lgtciursv22d

This is the time to gather your community, and to find new community if you need to. We keep us safe.

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Written by ragman on 2025-01-28 at 18:32

This helped me narrow down what had been making my blog generation scripts run slower. It’s a nice debugging experience!

Permalink: https://www.ragman.net/notes/10

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Written by ragman on 2025-01-28 at 18:32

TIL that Chrome has a great built in Node JS profiler.

You can connect the Chrome debugger to your Node code, and get Performance metrics just like you can with a website!

See https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/performance/nodejs for full instructions.

One tip is that you need to add a timeout before the code you want to profile, so that you have time to hit the Record button in the DevTools “Performance” tab.

[#]coding, #webdev, #debugging, #nodejs

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Written by ragman on 2025-01-28 at 16:35

Mastodon etiquette question for you all!

If I'm making a threaded series of posts, where should I put my hashtags?

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Written by ragman on 2025-01-19 at 23:19

I was just reading Taliesyn Walker’s post[1] about RSS and TIL that you can add a element to your website that points to your RSS feed!

It looks like this:

This allows RSS readers (and search engines) to more easily find your feed. Neat!

[1] https://www.johnwalker.nl/posts/escape-the-walled-garden-with-rss

Permalink: https://www.ragman.net/notes/7

[#]coding, #rss, #indieweb

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Written by ragman on 2025-01-06 at 16:35

Not every note will be published to Mastodon, nor will every toot I make become a note – just the things I want to preserve or easily find later.

These /notes were inspired by @dbushell ’s microblog[2], go check out his website it’s great!

[1] https://www.citationneeded.news/posse/

[2] https://dbushell.com/notes/

[#]posse

Permalink: https://www.ragman.net/notes/1

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Written by ragman on 2025-01-06 at 16:35

I declare 2025 to be my year of the POSSE[1]: Post (on) Own Site Syndicate Elsewhere!

This is the first note in my website’s /notes section, which if all goes well, should be simultaneously published to Mastodon.

My goal with these notes is to share little snippets, probably mostly coding related, that are too small to write up as a full blog post.

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Written by ragman on 2024-08-11 at 02:56

Saw this cool praying mantis outside our door in West Philly tonight! Anybody know what kind it is?

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